STORY OF PORT KLANG ICM


Date Project Started – 17 July 2001

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between International Maritime Organization (IMO) and Selangor State Government (SSG) was signed. IMO was represented by Dr. Chua Thia-Eng, Regional Program Director of PEMSEA (Partnership in Environmental Management for The Seas of East Asia) and SSG was represented by the Selangor Chief Minister, Dato’ Seri Dr. Mohd Khir bin Toyo.

On the same occasion, another MOU was signed between IMO, SSG and LESTARI of National University of Malaysia (UKM). This allows LESTARI to provide administrative and technical support and capacity building throughout the project duration.

The event took place at the Chief Minister’s Office at the Selangor State Secretariat building in Shah Alam, Selangor. It was also witnessed by the Malaysia’s UNDP representative, Ms. Maxine Olson, Mr. Adrian Ross, Senior Program Officer at PEMSEA, the then Selangor State Legal Advisor, Dato’ Zawawi Salleh, and SWMA Director, Ir. Hj. Rahmat Mohd Shariff.

Total project duration

17 July 2001 until 31 September 2004 (3 years 2 months). Due to the tremendous feedback and recognition on the program by various parties, PEMSEA has secured the green light from the donors to extend this program for another year until September 2005.


Project Boundary

In view of the inter-relations between land and sea, 2 pioneer coastal districts have been selected in Selangor for this project: Klang District and Kuala Langat District. These two districts were selected as they host two of the river mouths that traversed through the most populous and developed areas in the country. Among the cities traversed through by both rivers are Kuala Lumpur (capital city of Malaysia), Petaling Jaya (highly urbanized city adjacent to Kuala Lumpur) and Putrajaya (new Malaysia Federal Government administrative capital). This area presents numerous conflicts that arised from various developments in the area.
 

Partnership

This project is co funded by both the Selangor State Government and IMO on a 50-50 basis. IMO contribution comes from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Partnership also comes in the sense that all the related government agencies will coherently involved in this project as partners rather than consultants. Partnership is viewed as a long-term and sustainable solution in solving a multiple use conflicts in a complex coastal zone through creating a sense of ownership.


Project Office

In executing this project, a Project Management Office (PMO) was set up at the Selangor Waters Management Authority (SWMA) office in Bangunan Darul Ehsan, Shah Alam.

SWMA is a Selangor State agency, which was set up in 1999 to plan and implement an integrated river basin management throughout the state of Selangor, guided by its enactment, Selangor Waters Management Authority Enactment 1999 (SWMAE 1999). It tends to reshape environmental protection and river basin management into a new heights in the country towards the decades.


Staffing

From the beginning of the project until present time, a total staff of 8 personnel works at PMO which comprise of 1 Director, 1 Marine Officer, 1 Information Officer, 1 Engineer, 2 Technical Assistants, 1 Administrative Clerk and 1 Driver.